Monday, April 16, 2012

You Are The Dream Of God

Did you know that God
has put a dream inside of each and every one of us? He has a dream
specially created just for your life! We know according to Genesis 1:26
that God had a conversation with Himself and said, "Let Us make man in
Our image, according to our likeness…" and when God created woman in
Genesis 2:21 He said, "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on
Adam, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh
in it's place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He
made into a woman, an He brought her to the man. And Adam said, "This is
now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called WOMAN,
because she was taken out of man."

So WOMAN came from man, but
she's made in the image of GOD. That's quite an interesting concept,
isn't it? Woman is distinctly female, yet has inseparable qualities of
both MAN AND GOD within her. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT! Wow, we are
soooo fearfully and wonderfully made. Can you just get inside the mind
of God for a moment when He was dreaming about creating woman – what an
absolute genius mind God has… man is wonderful, and man is made in the
image of God too, but we are truly made with both male and female
qualities – quite unique. We are the female counterpart to the Godhead
because we mirror – or we're supposed to mirror all the qualities of
Holy Spirit. Gentle, kind, loving, tender, yet absolutely the voice of
authority in our sphere of influence. And ever since woman was created,
God has been trying to get woman to let the man out of her. When I say
"man," I'm referring to the voice of male authority that is found in
Christ. It's the GOD-MAN in us.

God wants to see us live
the reality of His word that says we are made in HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS.
That means we need to look like God. We need to sound like God. When we
speak, the devil shouldn't be able to tell the difference between us or
Jesus when we're walking in the dominion, the power, the authority, and
the confidence of knowing who we were made to be. Holy Spirit is the
one that creates, He is the one who impregnates and conceives the dream
of God. He is the very womb of God. He is the one that gives birth. He
hovers over those He loves like a mother hen; He is the one that
comforts, encourages, lifts up and nurtures those He loves. Do you see
how you, dear woman, are made in the image of God?

You are Mary – who
was impregnated with the dream of God. You are Hannah, that travailed to
see the birth of the promise. You are Ruth, who knew the importance of
devoted loyalty even in the face of personal sacrifice. You are Tamar
and Rachel, that wrestled with God and others, not dissuaded by
circumstances but spurred on by injustice, that brings forth a promise
named Breakthrough and generations of great fruitfulness. You are
Deborah, that wars for the justice of God and compels others to rise up
and do what's right – to fight the good fight of faith. And you are
Esther…a woman who has come into the Kingdom of God for such a time of
this. A woman who will lay down her life to confront the enemy and
decree life to those that have been targeted for the enemy's
destruction. A woman that knows what it means to wear the robes of
royalty with gratitude, confidence and humility, and to know what it is
to be an extension of the King's scepter of authority. Every woman that I
mentioned is a different picture of who God is, and what the CHRIST in
US yearns to do. So ladies, let Him out. This is who you really are!

YOU ARE THE DREAM OF GOD.

Don't
be afraid to dream big, to be a woman of influence. God has spoken
words of destiny over you and He wants His dream for you to come to
pass! Do you believe that? Do you know He's had conversations about you
in heaven that you know nothing about? He's spoken to the Godhead; He's
spoken to the angels. He has words of destiny that are waiting to be
fulfilled!

But some of us need divine surgery on our
hearts in order to see that happen. You see, sometimes we have a filter
on our ears, and it affects how we hear. Sometimes we have a filter on
what we see, and it affects our perception. If you have unresolved
offense or unforgiveness, everything is affected because of the filter.
If you've got insecurities or fears, you've got a filter. And the enemy
uses those filters – whatever they are – to manipulate your hearing so
that he can manipulate your belief system. When he manipulates your
belief system, it transfers over to your actions. It has a ripple
effect. It's not just good that gets passed on, offense gets passed on, too. That's why the Bible warns us to beware of anyone that has a root of bitterness, lest it defile the hearts of those affected by those that are offended. Offense poisons others and multiplies greatly. The Bible admonishes us to be "wise women," and compares the wise woman to the foolish woman in Prov. 14:1. The foolish woman tears down her house through negative speech and unloving actions. We want to be the wise woman that heals through love. A wise woman promotes wholeness and health in her family with sound speech, love and wisdom of God. Let me encourage you today to examine your own heart for places where you need the Lord's healing. There may be areas where you think you're ok, but if you
haven't really forgiven someone that offended you, if you haven't renounced that "filter" or dealt with the root of your issues, the enemy has an open door to
continue to spin his web of lies. That's how he keeps that blind spot there, 'cause
that's where he has a hook in you. And, that blind spot may seem like not that big of a deal to you, but it might be enough to
keep you from your next door of opportunity, or walking into your
inheritance as a child of God. We may not even know it's there, but GOD knows when we're
got a blind spot and it's affecting us in some way. Do you know why they
call them blind spots? Because YOU can't see them. YOU ARE BLIND TO
YOUR BLIND SPOTS. You have to trust HOLY SPIRIT to do the assessment for
you.

Our assessment of where we are at spiritually or
emotionally, or even our assessment of our own maturity level is
absolutely irrelevant. It means nothing, because our own opinions and
the way we judge ourselves is not equal to God's standard of holiness or
purity. We will automatically judge ourselves to be in a higher state
of maturity or spirituality than what we really are. God's word is our
standard, not our biased assessment of ourselves or others, and not our
personal opinions. Sometimes there are things that are too painful to
admit. Things that we're too ashamed to confess to ourselves, much less
to God. Listen, I know what it's like to have such shame you can't even
hardly face yourself, much less confess it to another human being. I've
been the drunk and the drug addict. I've been the person who couldn't
keep a job, or the mom who risked having her kid taken away. I've been
the adulterous woman looking for love in all the wrong place. I
know what it feels like to lose everything and have to start over –
sometimes from my own sin, and other times because I simply said yes to
God. I know what it's like when everyone abandons you, and you're
standing by yourself on the curb, wondering where God is in your life. I
know what it's like to hate God and shake my fist and say, "HOW CAN I
TRUST YOU?" when all my dreams were shattered and lying in pieces. And I
know the shame of it all when the devil tells your story in such a way
so that what others see is the worst possible picture. Please know that
what you've done is not who you are.
Never forget that you are made in the image of God. You are a child of
God. The redeemed, His bride. You are the righteousness of God in Christ
Jesus. You are destiny. Royalty. Never let the devil or anyone else
tell you otherwise!

God wants to go deep. We can't expect
to go into our future carrying around all our baggage from the past. You
can't restore others until you are restored. Women are life givers.
They are by nature, restorers. If you have become anything less, then
you are denying the very person you were created to be! I want you to
think about the attributes of the Holy Spirit that I described.
Life-giver, nurturer, comforter, encourager, protector, mediator, peace
maker and so much more. Women are the key to families being healed,
which is why the enemy has tried so very hard to destroy them and keep
them from entering into their destiny. Women are the key to healing
their children and their children's destinies, because if a woman is
walking in peace, joy and the love of the Lord – everybody around her is
going to get a touch. You have the ability to turn your husband in a
new direction, and with it, turn the destiny of your entire family and
generations to come – in a new direction, but you can't do it by force
or manipulation. YOU WERE CREATED TO
INFLUENCE, but God wants your influence to come from Him the way He
created you to be, not the ways the enemy wants to manipulate our
behavior. If you want to be even more of a life giver than what you
already are, then you have to start walking in an even greater
anointing.

The first step is walk in the reality of who
God created you to be – and not the identity the enemy has tried to put
on you. He has done everything possible to conform people to some
twisted, misunderstood, rejected piece of work and signed his name to
his handiwork, but TODAY is the day when the tables turn and you can get
the upper hand over the enemy.There is a quote from a little book
called the Prayer of Jabez that has stuck with me. The author was giving
this illustration of a great man of God and wondered what made him so
different from other men. Then he walked down the hall and overheard
this man praying. He said, "Ahhh…Now I know. Great men pray different."
I'm telling you, to reach a place of influence…to see the power of God
move the mountains and be big in your life, you have to get to a place
where you pray different. You have to have ears to hear and CATCH
certain phrases, certain key words, and you capture them and take them
into your own prayers. You don't just read an article and walk away, you
glean from everything you can get and take it into prayer. You don't
just hear a message and leave thinking, wow, that was a great message.
You have a personal responsibility every time you hear an anointed word.
Your life becomes the message. We are living epistles
read of all men. Our lives become the prophetic message to those around
us –what sign are you wearing? What do others read out of your life?
The Holy Spirit inside of the believer is a healer, a reconciler, a
restorer. He is the one who encourages us to forgive, be gracious, be
victorious. The God inside of us always, always seeks to encourage, lift
people up, and NUDGE us, even PUSH us towards mending relationships,
loving and forgiving everyone, all the time. 70x7 is what Jesus told
Peter. We can't just talk about God. The question is, "CAN OTHERS SEE
CHRIST IN YOU?" Remember, woman of God, YOU ARE MADE IN HIS IMAGE. God
wants us to wear a sign that makes others stop and ask us for
directions.

The Bible tells us to overcome evil with good
and that love never fails. Sometimes the greatest test of your integrity is the
test of loving others in the midst of offense. When you pray out of a pure motive
- a heart moved by compassion and selfless, sacrificial love - This is
true greatness, and this is the GOD that lives inside us. This is what
He wants to create in us; the capacity to LOVE GREATLY – but until he
empties us of ourselves, we cannot be filled. He wants to take the
filters off. The ones that the enemy uses to make our love grow cold.
The ones the enemy uses to distort what we think we're hearing or
perceiving. God wants to rip the veil off the blind spots and give you
clarity, He wants to deal with our uncleannesses and restore us. He
wants to take every deficiency and fill it with power, authority and
anointing to take back our families and our inheritance. No way can the
devil have my family! No way can he have my husband! No way can he have
my health, my finances, my future, or any promise God has said belongs
to me. It's time to put our foot down on the devil's head and take it
all back. It's time for recovery! It's time for every daughter of Eve to
walk into her rightful inheritance and fulfill her destiny. You are a
beautiful, incredible woman of destiny and God is calling you up and out
of the ashes of your yesterdays. Put on the robes of royalty. Dare to
believe, because God is restoring HIS DREAM IN YOU!

Father,

I thank You that I am made in the image and likeness of God. I thank You that You put your greatness inside of me! Lord, I renounce all bitterness, unforgiveness and offense. I do not want them to hinder my future. I choose to forgive (Name those people you need to forgive) and I ask that You bless them in any way You see fit. Bless their families with healing. Bless them with health. Bless their finances. Help me to release them to you. Lord, if I have any blind spots, show them to me so that the enemy cannot exploit them. I give You permission, Holy Spirit, in advance of any situation that may arise - that You have permission to change my responses so that they honor You. I submit myself to You, Lord Jesus, and your Holy Spirit. You may change my heart, change my words and responses, so that the enemy cannot receive any glory. I thank You for helping me be an agent of healing and reconciliation. Fill me with Your love, grace and mercy so that it can be used for the good of healing others and leading them to You. In Jesus name, amen.

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Norm and Laura Gagnon believe the kingdom of God is not only in word, but in power. The Gagnons are blessed with the gift of understanding God’s restorative work through their own personal experiences. They stand on the promises of God and encourage others in an elevated expectation of the miraculous, boldly declaring the gift of His life.

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